My girlfriend likes to shop a lot, but she don't really like hip-hop a lot -- the Wideboys f/ Sway & Maclean, "Shopaholic (Future Garage Mix)" thread

Yeah, I know it's been talked about in whatever the hell that one thread is, but it really deserves to be singled out on its own. It's that damn good. Stands out as the highlight of any mix I've heard it in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLlgdtUjvw

I think the really key thing is the contrast between Sway's ambivalence and Maclean's chipper chorus. Also, I really appreciate how the current wave of garage revivalism has managed to fold everything that's come in its wake back into itself. Bassline especially!

THIS IS 4 THE BUBBL-AH: traktor (mike delinquent remix) vs dangerous (mr v remix)

07 - Wideboys Ft. Sway & McLean - Shopaholic (Future Garage Mix)

this mix is a jam, dudes fucked up with the single

― r|t|c, Friday, 1 July 2011 09:52 (1 month ago)

Thanks for reminding me about this!

Yeah, that's that one thread.

Yeah this tune keeps on switching up the groove with admirable aplomb.

Although in truth i'm not sure that there's anything in this particular tune that couldn't have been beamed straight from 2000. OTOH the wideboys make bassline too so the resemblance probably isn't accidental.

yeah that's been on my mind recently somewhat - as the ukg revival has happily reified and all the old chaps have dutifully come back out of their burrows (tuff jam, club asylum) it's slowly become harder to discern - recall even - what the interesting intersecting point was; the remit of that bubblah thread has felt more precarious, swaddled in a sense of distrustworthy nostalgic comfort - ukg as this childhood treehouse that everyone cyclically goes back to have a transitional think in.

i know no one gives a rat's ass about non-grime UK garage nowadays, but...

like haha i know this thread exists but i havent dared reread it for fear of uncomf truths.

bassline too, as if startled by the background kitchen sink things it's always held dear coming back into sudden trendy plenitude, seems to have shrunk away lately. will return right as rain like nothing had ever happened when this has passed of course, but it's perturbing still.

"critically" speaking i suppose this stuff generally gets so little care and attention paid to it that it's near impossible for any revanchist distortion not to occur either way

I just realized that of all the British posters on ILX, rtc is the only one whose posts I read in a comedy British accent.

http://i.imgur.com/QXR5G.gif

it must be said one sometimes fails to resist the temptation to read tim's posts in a comedy aussie accent.

Need to stop referring to the wideboys as drongos.

i know no one gives a rat's ass about non-grime UK garage nowadays, but...

I wasn't aware of this thread at all at the time!

I swear this is the same song I wrote for my band in college, "When We Go Shopping", except that was mock-country/bluegrass instead of hip-hop. But I still like it.

more specifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bws_eVfFoU&feature=related

Fuck Sway is such a good rapper. This Is My Demo is still amazing. Why the fuck is Tinie Tempah bigger than he is. Grumble.

feelin this obv

ive had that bubblah thread bookmarked & havent had time to read it once

You really should! Underrated thread of 2011.

the second verse is a marvel

she's got so many clothes
if we put them on the floor in a line
we could reach sweden
if we put them on the floor in a line,
including the ones she bought online,
including her make-up and all of her beauty products,
we could circle the world one time

the pacing of that reminds me of a specific contemporary poet and i can't bloody remember who

Why the fuck is Tinie Tempah bigger than he is.

to be fair sway has never come up with a monster like "pass out". hmm maybe "f ur x" actually but really it was stush who owned that song. why is stush not bigger than both!

(possibly relevant question - why have so many male UK rappers crossed over, many of really quite poor quality, EXAMPLE, but this open-door policy seems not to have been extended to our female MCs?)

(why has THIS SONG not crossed over?)

Because the original (that was actually released as a single) is shit.

Well maybe not shit but no way does it compare to this remix.

ha i just realised this isn't the original

oh well, uk pop

yeah that's been on my mind recently somewhat - as the ukg revival has happily reified and all the old chaps have dutifully come back out of their burrows (tuff jam, club asylum) it's slowly become harder to discern - recall even - what the interesting intersecting point was; the remit of that bubblah thread has felt more precarious, swaddled in a sense of distrustworthy nostalgic comfort - ukg as this childhood treehouse that everyone cyclically goes back to have a transitional think in.

This tune has really crept up on me as a kind of potential erm "way forward" as well being, like, a banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZhlq75JRnY

this song is still amazing - love the three-way vocal perspectives

yes